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Many Ways in Which the Potent Drug is Smuggled “An Egyptian smoker of hasheesh is even a more helpless slave then the Chinese opium fiend. He knows that in the end he will become a madman, yet he rushes toward Read More …
1948 NYPD Narcotics arrest, news video. Five men and one woman were busted in a 1948 NYPD raid. 1948 NEW YORK CITY MARIJUANA BUST Busted: Five men and one woman were busted in a 1948 NYPD raid; here, two Read More …
“Dope peddler arrested.” Frank, 26 years old (with a bag of bulk Marijuana). Los Angles, CA – May 16, 1952
Robles said he “Grew marijuana because he ‘liked the pretty flower’s on it!” Los Angeles, 1952 Det. Otis Green, Theodore S. Robles and Det. H.I.B. Warren, with 7-foot marijuana plants Robles was found growing in his backyard at 1023 Mahar Read More …
Chinatown Squad of the San Francisco Police Department posing with sledge hammers and axes in front of August Pistolesi’s grocery store at 752 Washington Street – 1895 Predecessor to the Narcotics Squad’s and DEA In this 100+ year Drug Read More …
Sergeant H. D. Bakenhus of the Seattle Police Department is shown here standing among confiscated marijuana plants. September 9, 1939
“Poor pilgrims blithe and jolly, in penance for past folly.” -Seceders in limbo -Vagabonds made useful. 1798 etching Hemp: The Prison Pounding As I’ve discussed in my earlier story ‘The Poor House’ (link to the story here ), many institutions Read More …
“Albert and Baltazar Negrite, aged 9 and 10, are shown with George Contreras, Detective Chief of the District Attorney’s Office. Boys are wearing new clothes purchase for them after Contreras had found them in destitute circumstance upon investigating charges that Read More …
Jerry in underwear alien costume with police, 1958 No Man From Mars In 1958 following a UFO sighting, residents of Bad Axe, Michigan started seeing some strange things around town… Reports of a “little blue man” that would Read More …
Bonfire Material Los Angeles Times -Sept. 8, 1948 “Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Dwight Smith drags a load of marijuana from a roadside patch in Rosemead. The plants were later burned. A story in the next morning’s L.A. Times Read More …